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Port Material and Render Dialog UIs to Qt

The UI of Corona materials is slow to display, especially when using IR and switching between materials. The UI will redraw only slowly, due to the fact that Corona materials and the render dialog use the Win32 framework for its UI. It's well visi...
Marcin Gruszczyk 5 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps / Workflow and Tools 2 Pending

Triplanar as a mapping option in the Corona Bitmap

Created based on a forum post, which had ended up with this suggestion: "simplified triplanar mapping could be implemented straight into Corona bitmap, next to explicit, real world and enviromental mapping modes. So when you don't need advanced pa...
Tom Grimes 5 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 1 Pending

Corona Toon/Outlines Shader

Either an expansion to the coronaWire functionality to allow 'profiles' to be rendered as outlines. Or a specific shader that would allow for rendering of useful elevations and plan views as outlines. It should not outline every single polygon nor...
Jack Pedleham 5 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 1 Pending

Render Distance map to file or disable updates

Sometimes using a distance map is a great way to generate a scatter map or mask for materials in your scene. However the distance map is computationally pretty expensive especially with lots of items or high resolution assets and often i find myse...
Jack Pedleham 7 days ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 0 Pending

Herringbone bond for Corona TileMap

We love using Corona TileMap for timber floors but sadly there is no herringbone bond yet. Could you add one to Corona TileMap?
Stefanie Drawehn 3 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 0 Pending

Iridescent material

Iridescent material for oil slicks, Bubbles, Bugs, furniture, metals etc
Joseph Sayle 2 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 3 Pending

Parallax Mapping

Parallax mapping as a displacement alternative. Created from forum thread at https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=26764.0 Also see https://forums.chaos.com/forum/v-ray-for-3ds-max-forums/v-ray-for-3ds-max-wishlist/1205669-native-vray-...
Tom Grimes 5 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 0 Pending

Port VraySoftBox Map to Corona

The Softbox texture is really useful and versatile for product rendering. And I suspect that from a programing standpoint this map is really simple. It would be nice if it was available in Corona too. Actually don't port/copy it and make a "Corona...
Thomas Zaar 2 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 0 Pending

Ability to override unsupported materials

On behalf of forum user Jpjapers. Original thread: https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=42553.0 The user would like to be able to temporarily override all unsupported materials in scene just like currently it is possible to override a...
Marcin Miodek 5 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 0 Pending

Change behavior when adjusting ‘additional outputs’ for the first time

When you have a bitmap plugged into something like corona color adjustment or corona mapping randomizer, and then you add an additional output it unplugs your first map from the material. No real reason for this and in a complex scenario it compli...
Daniel Temple 3 months ago in Corona for 3ds Max / Materials & Maps 0 Pending